Events

The Network’s annual research conferences provide researchers, stakeholders, and funders an opportunity to learn about findings from projects supported by grants awarded as part of the Hewlett Foundation’s PopPov initiative. At these meetings, researchers share successes and challenges in communicating results to decisionmakers. To encourage engagement with stakeholders, the PopPov Secretariat provides coaching for presentations before high-level panels, training in how to write for nontechnical audiences, and travel support.

The objective of the workshop was to encourage the use of the CKW model in country-level policy planning throughout Africa by instructing African researchers how to use the model, interpret the policy implications of the model results, and communicate them to policymakers.

PopPov Research Network members are encouraged to submit papers to the Cape Town IUSSP conference. The Hewlett Foundation has offered to provide some travel grants for people involved in sessions related to the PopPov agenda of promoting research on the interaction of population dynamics, reproductive health, and economic development.

The Research Council of Norway’s ECONPOP program – Research on Economic Growth Poverty Reduction, Reproductive Health and Population Dynamics – will disseminate results to policy-makers in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Agency for Development Cooperation, Norad, at a conference on April 27, 2017 in Oslo, Norway.

The Tenth Annual Research Conference on Population, Reproductive Health, and Economic Development will be held September 8th and 9th, 2016 at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC.

Recently, the Population Reference Bureau held a workshop on “Strategies for Communicating and Interacting with the Media” for researchers in the Population and Poverty Research Network. Peter Goldstein and Heidi Worley of the Population Reference Bureau and Tiffany Lohwater of the American Association for the Advancement of Science led the workshop. The workshop focused broadly on strategies that researchers could use to communicate with the media, but the topic that captured the most interest was using social media to engage the media and the broader public.

Research scientists will share the latest findings on interventions that contribute to better health and educational attainment for adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. The briefing will also explore how increased human capital of adolescent girls can contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

This session will explore the economic aspect of the priority theme of the 60th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women: Women’s empowerment and its link to sustainable development. Experts on women’s employment, empowerment, and economic development will share the latest research and discuss outcomes of initiatives that invest in women.

This panel will review recent research examining the impact of the Matlab Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning Program (MCH-FP) over 35 years after the start of the program. The panel will examine some key outcomes including fertility and child survival, effects on women’s economic and social empowerment, human capital and labor market outcomes, and migration patterns.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Population Reference Bureau, and the Population and Poverty Research Network are pleased to announce the ICFP Preconference Workshop on the Demographic Dividend. The workshop will take place on Jan. 25, 2016 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., in advance of the International Conference on Family Planning in Nusa Dua, Indonesia.

Journalists and communications professionals from across sub-Saharan Africa will come together to learn about key concepts of the demographic dividend and consider its relevance to local, national, and international news at this workshop.

The PopPov Research Network will be hosting a workshop, “From Research to Policy: Learn and Practice Writing to Reach Policy Audiences,” during the Population Association of America’s annual meeting in San Diego.

Over 70 people attended PopPov’s parallel event during the 59th annual UN Commission on the Status of Women. The panel, “Rights Make Might! Reproductive Rights as Economic Empowerment for Women and Girls,” explored how access to quality reproductive health services protect and improve the health and economic well-being of women and girls, as well as the effects of cash transfer programs.

PRB hosted a panel at the UNESCO Management of Social Transformations (MOST) First Forum of Ministers of Social Development for Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya on February 26, 2015. Researchers from the PopPov Research Network shared policy-relevant research findings on the connection between reproductive and sexual health, fertility, and economic outcomes for households and communities.

The Sixth Annual PopPov Conference on Population, Reproductive Health, and Economic Development was held in Accra, Ghana from Jan. 18-21, 2012. Sponsors include the Hewlett Foundation and the Population Reference Bureau, and the University of Ghana hosted the meeting.

The Fifth Annual PopPov Conference on Population, Reproductive Health, and Economic Development took place in Marseille, France, Jan. 19-21, 2011. The Institut de Recherche pour le Développement and Agence Française de Développement, hosted the 2011 meeting.

The Second Annual Research Conference on Population Impacts on Economic Development was held in Arusha, Tanzania, on Dec. 8-9, 2007, immediately prior to the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) Fifth African Population Conference.

The First Annual Research Conference on Population Impacts on Economic Development was held in London, Nov. 1-3, 2006. It marked the formal beginning of the Hewlett/PRB research initiative on population, reproductive health and economic development.